(On back of sleeve)Patsy Cline. Born into a home that was one day to be broken in divorce, she left school at 16 to help support her family. Working in a drugstore in her native Winchester, Virginia, by day, she sang her heart out by night, on street corners, in churches, taverns, anywhere she could be heard.
The ups and during the 10 years following her first audition visit to Nashville, Tennessee, home of country music, were more than canceled out by the downs. There was plenty of singing but none of it big time. There were recordings that didn't make the grade and there was a marriage that ended in divorce.
Finally Patsy got up her gumption and sang her soul out to win at the Arther Godfrey Talent Scouts award, with a song which became her first major hit record, "Walking After Midnight." A few recordings later, came another hit, "I Fall to Pieces." Then irony and fate blew their whistles again for Patsy. As the recording with the strangely prophetic title was beginning to sell, Patsy was in a serious auto accident which involved two highway deaths. It was a brush with death for Patsy, who was hospitalized for three months while "I Fall to Pieces" climbed the best seller charts.
From that time on her career assumed tidal wave proportions. She toured from coast to coast, from Carnegie Hall to Las Vegas and the Hollywood Bowl with almost weekly return trips to the Grand Ol' Opry radio show in Nashville. She was indeed, at the top of her career when the scythe of the grim reaper cut her down so swiftly.
Yet again, it must be said, she lives on forever through her music. Here Packaged for posterity is a collection of a dozen of Patsy's greatest.